Rega HAL + EXON manual?


I've bought a Rega HAL Preamp and two Exon poweramps. Does anyone have the original Manual? og do you know of a website that has these posted somewhere?
thokas

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Thanks, my problem is though, that I have purchased the HAL and the EXONS (version 1) as used items - in mint condition however, add the guy has provided me with standard XLR cables. The result is that they are playing in Mono! ;-)

I can see from you other post that the HAL is sending a stereo signal from both XLR outputs on the HAL - not a balanced signal (very clever)

My question is how I re-solder a set of standard XLR cables. I guess I have to switch pin 2 and 3 on one of the cables (and that PIN 3 is not used at all when connecting to the EXON?). Has anybody tried this? I'm not to keen on "blowing up" the power amp because I make a short circuit ...
Solved it! If you want to use a standard XLR cables you can do that. The only thing you have to do is opening one of the XLR plugs - only on one cable, and switch the cores between pin 2 and pin 3.

If you want to make you own cables, you only need a standard RCA cable with 2 cores and 4 standard XLR plugs (2 male, and 2 female).

At the HAL end you connect the cores to pin 1 (gnd.) and 2 (right) at one cable, and pin 1 (gnd.) and 3 (left) on what becomes the left cable. At the EXON end of the cables you connect the cores to pin 1 and 2 on BOTH cables! as the EXONS only used pin 1 and 2...

Why REGA chose to take perfectly standardized XLR cables and twist them that way, instead of using standard RCA plugs and cables I don't know. Perhaps they saw this as an opportunity to sell their own "proprietary" cables? ;-)

The only benefit I see, is that you can Quad-amp and connect a subwoofer to the HAL, because it actually has both right and left channel in both outputs.